I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace. - Ba Jin

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.

Not yet. I don't know what I'm so happy about. But it doesn't matter whether Ma agrees or not. I can make my own decisions. I'm a person, the same as the rest of you.